Photo: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0Work and commuting in Arkport
Only 4% work in Arkport itself; outside it, Hornell draws the most (23%, 4 miles). Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers; New York has 15%. The trip to work takes 20 minutes on average (New York 33, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Arkport stands out on work
Arkport and Hornell trade workers both ways
Hornell is the top workplace for Arkport residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Arkport come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Arkport are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Arkport makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Arkport are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Arkport residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 16%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 283 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Out of Arkport to work: where people go
Where Arkport clocks in
23% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Getting to work from Arkport takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Arkport workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 443 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Goods, not services: 44% of the jobs in Arkport
373 jobs are based in Arkport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arkport, 2013 → 2023: 411 → 373. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Arkport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Arkport by day
On a workday 272 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 362 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Arkport on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.32 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far it is to work from Arkport
About 21% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Arkport: questions
What is the median household income in Arkport?
$74,250 (±$13,985) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Arkport?
13.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arkport?
20 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Arkport work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hornell (23%, 4 mi), Hornellsville (13%, 4 mi), Alfred (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Arkport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Arkport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arkport
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.